Stewart Robertson

Composer’s little-performed opera ‘The Tender Land’ gets a new life at Glimmerglass.

07/05/2010 - 20:00

Robert Goldblum

Managing Editor

Aaron Copland grew up in the cramped quarters of Brooklyn, the child of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, but in his music he lit out for the territory. The architecture of city life — Deco skyscrapers and imposing Beaux-Arts museums — defined his early life, but in his music he sought sanctuary in the prairie.